There’s No Place Like Home: Foote Girls Drift the Chesapeake Bay
View of waterfowl and church on Tangier Island Every place you go has a special kind of talk. When the Foote family arrived from Wyoming to Superior, Nebraska in 1991, they encountered a different kind of lingo than they were used to. They weren’t always “fixin’ to go” somewhere “fer to get” something, but they would “prolly” agree with you that they’re hungry for “dinner,” even if it turns out to be served at lunch time… Such regional peccadillos have always fascinated the Footes’ daughter, Shayna. Having graduated from Superior High School in 1994, she went to Hastings College for a bit and studied diction of foreign languages. Later enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, she picked up Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and later went on to study the Georgian language. The Foote girls - Shayna and her mother, Sandy - have always loved things a bit exotic. For Sandy’s most recent trip to see her daughter, they decided to go on a linguistic and nautical...